Atomic Theory

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/tryit/atom/builder.html (interactive atom builder)

http://dwb.unl.edu/Teacher/NSF/C04/C04Links/www.fwkc.com/encyclopedia/low/articles/q/q021000030f.html

Scientists	Known for..	Resources
Aristotle & fellow geeky Greeks	Atomos - atoms are tiny indivisible particles	http://galileoandeinstein.physics.virginia.edu/lectures/aristot2.html
Antoine Henri Becquere	discovered radioactivity	http://www.physics.isu.edu/radinf/cuire.htm http://www.chem.duke.edu/~jds/cruise_chem/nuclear/discovery.html
Niels Bohr	Bohr model of the atom (solar system) - different energy levels for electrons	http://edtech2.boisestate.edu/lindabennett1/502/democritus.html
James Chadwick	discovered the neutron using paraffin was experiment	http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/dp32ne.html
William Crookes	invented the Crookes tube (CRT) which allowed explorations of the electron	http://www.magnet.fsu.edu/education/tutorials/pioneers/crookes.html
Marie Curie	radioactivity	http://www.physics.isu.edu/radinf/cuire.htm http://www.chem.duke.edu/~jds/cruise_chem/nuclear/discovery.html
John Dalton	rules about atoms	http://www.iun.edu/~cpanhd/C101webnotes/composition/dalton.html http://edtech2.boisestate.edu/lindabennett1/502/democritus.html
Democritus	formulated an atomic theory for the universe	http://www.egs.edu/library/democritus/biography/ http://edtech2.boisestate.edu/lindabennett1/502/democritus.html
Otto Hahn	pioneer in the fields of radioactivity and radio chemistry	http://faculty.cua.edu/may/Hahn.pdf http://www.orcbs.msu.edu/radiation/resources_links/historical_figures/hahn.htm
Lise Meitner	discovered nuclear fission (like the a-bomb)	http://www.orcbs.msu.edu/radiation/resources_links/historical_figures/meitner.htm http://www.sdsc.edu/ScienceWomen/meitner.html
Robert Millikan	charge of the electron (oil drop experiment)	http://www.fi.edu/learn/case-files/millikan/index.html http://www.magnet.fsu.edu/education/tutorials/pioneers/millikan.html
Ernest Rutherford	discovered the nucleus of the atom with the gold foil experiment	http://edtech2.boisestate.edu/lindabennett1/502/democritus.html http://www.chem.duke.edu/~jds/cruise_chem/nuclear/discovery.html http://www.orcbs.msu.edu/radiation/resources_links/historical_figures/rutherford.htm
Glenn T. Seaborg	isotopes using a cyclotron	http://www.seaborg.ucla.edu/biography.html http://www.nmu.edu/seaborg/node/9
Erwin Schrodinger	quantum electrons as probability fields (cat)	http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/optics/timeline/people/schroedinger.html
Frederick Soddy	discovered isotopes	http://chemistry.unt.edu/drupal6/sites/chemistry.unt.edu/themes/unt_chemistry/rediscovery/Soddy.pdf
J.J. (Joseph John) Thompson	named and investigated the electron	http://edtech2.boisestate.edu/lindabennett1/502/democritus.html http://www.magnet.fsu.edu/education/tutorials/pioneers/thomson.html